Jump to content
Indianapolis Colts
Conversations are moderated for civility. We ask that you please stay on topic. For more info, see our Community Guidelines ×
Indianapolis Colts Fan Forum
Enter To Win 2 Tickets to Steelers @ Colts Sun 09/29 | 1:00 PM EDT

FA Rumors

Andrew Luck fan club
 Share

Recommended Posts

  • Replies 1.4k
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Top Posters In This Topic

Popular Days

Posted Images

buccolts Hall of Famer

buccolts

Posted
Posted

There's nothing wrong with that 'plan', IF you draft well.

Grigson didn't do that.

For the life of me, I don't know why he spent so much effort on 'project' guys.

Maybe he just didn't have a full understanding of what it took to make the 'plan' work.

Green may have been the death of him.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
ColtsBlueFL Team Captain

ColtsBlueFL

Posted
Posted
15 hours ago, SaturdayAllDay said:

Well that is an interesting and worrisome development if true.

 

Throws a wrench into the works about how people will sign with the Colts because of Luck and they want to win...

 

No question the AFC South is moving toward parity...

Link to comment
Share on other sites
weslo1812 Walk On

weslo1812

Posted
Posted
5 minutes ago, krunk said:

Not sure what his plans are at safety but I would like to see Darius Butler brought back.  I'll give Ballard my trust whatever his plan is, but I think D Butler has a place here.

Ballard has my trust as of right now. I really think he has a good understanding of what needs to be done and how to go about doing it. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
#12. Ring of Honor

#12.

Posted
Posted

So far Ballard has:

 

- Traded with the Patriots.

- Signed a Pats OLB.

- Signed a Vrabel/Crennel LB out of the Patriot system.

- Scheduled a visit with another Pats LB.

- Signed a left-footed punter.

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
WarGhost21 Practice Squad

WarGhost21

Posted
Posted
1 minute ago, #12. said:

So far Ballard has:

 

- Traded with the Patriots.

- Signed a Pats OLB.

- Signed a Vrabel/Crennel LB out of the Patriot system.

- Scheduled a visit with another Pats LB.

- Signed a left-footed punter.

 

You make it sound so terrible haha 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
ColtsBlueFL Team Captain

ColtsBlueFL

Posted
Posted
15 hours ago, jvan1973 said:

Romo is less durable than Samuel L Jackson in Unbreakable

 

Yet we couldn't get near and made the QB nobody wants (Osweiler!) look All-Pro.  Romo may look All-World unless we find a way to get in other teams backfield on a consistent basis.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
SaturdayAllDay Practice Squad

SaturdayAllDay

Posted
Posted
12 hours ago, Colts1324 said:

Ask Denver and Oakland. Pretty sure Denver spent a lot of money on players(Talib, Ware, TJ Ward, DRC main ones) and won a SB. The reason Jacksonville, Cleveland, Philly, and the other teams haven't done much is because they haven't had a star franchise QB. Those stats are irrelevant. Pats spent 16 million on Revis. He played lights out. They won a SB. Raiders signed Kelsie Osmelee(top guard), Michael Crabtree, Bruce Irvin(top pass rusher), Sean Smith(one of top corners available) while still retaining their own FA's. Raiders were SB favorites for many people before Carr injury. Broncos, Pats, and Raiders all had/have franchise QB's. Look at the positives too. I think people don't realize how much two or three top players can make for a team. I agree the best way to build is through the draft, but with the way Grigson has screwed us over, signing some good free agents would help. 

 

Look

Its all about signing the RIGHT free agents, regardless of cost. You say that having a franchise qb means you can go all in free agency, but what has that done for the saints? They sign top 5 free agents every year yet are in salary cap hell and have 3 consecutive losing seasons to show for it. The chargers are another team who went all in on free agents last yr (hayward, mebane, benjamin) and didnt make the playoffs either. Cardinals have brought in big free agents (chandler jones, veldheer, iupati, evan mathis) over the last few yrs and had a worse record than us last year. You can try and argue that arizona was bad due to a decline from palmer, but they were a top 10 ranked offense last season so obviously he is doing well enough.  

A few great players didnt help their chances, so it is obviously not a given that a few will help ours. Can they? Its possible, but not probable. And for what they do to our cap situation if they dont pan out, it isnt worth the risk. As ballard said in his press conference, you have to know they will be effective if you wanna pay them that much. Hes doing his due diligence and deciding who those players are. Trust the process, give him some time, we will see some good players start coming in. If he hasnt done anything by june, then we can start freaking out. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Colts1324 Team Captain

Colts1324

Posted
Posted
42 minutes ago, SaturdayAllDay said:

Its all about signing the RIGHT free agents, regardless of cost. You say that having a franchise qb means you can go all in free agency, but what has that done for the saints? They sign top 5 free agents every year yet are in salary cap hell and have 3 consecutive losing seasons to show for it. The chargers are another team who went all in on free agents last yr (hayward, mebane, benjamin) and didnt make the playoffs either. Cardinals have brought in big free agents (chandler jones, veldheer, iupati, evan mathis) over the last few yrs and had a worse record than us last year. You can try and argue that arizona was bad due to a decline from palmer, but they were a top 10 ranked offense last season so obviously he is doing well enough.  

A few great players didnt help their chances, so it is obviously not a given that a few will help ours. Can they? Its possible, but not probable. And for what they do to our cap situation if they dont pan out, it isnt worth the risk. As ballard said in his press conference, you have to know they will be effective if you wanna pay them that much. Hes doing his due diligence and deciding who those players are. Trust the process, give him some time, we will see some good players start coming in. If he hasnt done anything by june, then we can start freaking out. 

Fair enough. I agree that you do have to sign the right free agents! If we sign all of our free agents to 2 or 3 year deals, it will not have an affect on "building through the draft." We have a few players to resign in the next two year(Mewhort, Moncrief, Swoope(maybe), Davis, Geathers, Anderson), but none of our own are going to demand top player except maybe Geathers. I'm not saying let's sign 4 top free agents. Just 1 or 2 first tier free agents. Poe and Hightower for example would make me estatic. I'm tired of average players. We need playmakers. Players on defense that can make a difference in a ball game. 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
SaturdayAllDay Practice Squad

SaturdayAllDay

Posted
Posted
46 minutes ago, Colts1324 said:

Fair enough. I agree that you do have to sign the right free agents! If we sign all of our free agents to 2 or 3 year deals, it will not have an affect on "building through the draft." We have a few players to resign in the next two year(Mewhort, Moncrief, Swoope(maybe), Davis, Geathers, Anderson), but none of our own are going to demand top player except maybe Geathers. I'm not saying let's sign 4 top free agents. Just 1 or 2 first tier free agents. Poe and Hightower for example would make me estatic. I'm tired of average players. We need playmakers. Players on defense that can make a difference in a ball game. 

Agreed. Like I said though, it doesnt make sense to worry about it right now. Ballard is going through his process and deciding which guys are going to be hits. He wants to 100% sure these guys will be hits and I feel like that is worth waiting for. I have faith that if we trust the process that he is going through we will see results. Like I said, if nothing happens by June, then we freak out. haha

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Colts1324 Team Captain

Colts1324

Posted
Posted
1 hour ago, SaturdayAllDay said:

Agreed. Like I said though, it doesnt make sense to worry about it right now. Ballard is going through his process and deciding which guys are going to be hits. He wants to 100% sure these guys will be hits and I feel like that is worth waiting for. I have faith that if we trust the process that he is going through we will see results. Like I said, if nothing happens by June, then we freak out. haha

 

Yeah. I agree with those statements. I get freaked out when all the other teams are getting these "great" free agents and we are sitting back and doing nothing. Especially when two of the teams with the most cap space are in our division. I have no doubt in two years we will be up there with the best of them, I just want to be there competing for a SB next season. I believe it's quite possible we can do it IF we make the right moves(Hence why I'm stressing free agency and this offseason so much). 

Link to comment
Share on other sites
csmopar Ring of Honor

csmopar

Posted
Posted
43 minutes ago, PeterBowman said:

per Rotoworld and Schefter

 

Pats traded a 2nd to Carolina for Kony Ealy and a 3rd

 

1 minute ago, NorthernBlue said:

When was the last time NE was this active at this point of the year?

wow.  I can't think of a time like this.  Looks like they're gearing up to make one more Superbowl run before Brady retires in the next 2-3 years?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...